Examples of coherent in a Sentence

… the diaries and the novels demonstrate how a novelist tweaks and grooms reality into something more structured and coherent than life as it is lived.— Penelope Lively, Atlantic, February 2001He is without a political agenda as he is without a coherent moral sensibility.— Joyce Carol Oates, Entertainment Weekly, 27 July 1990At times, without my insisting on it, my writings become coherent; the successive elements that occur to me are clearly related.— William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, 1978This time the song was old, a pattern of rhythmic monosyllables which had lost coherent meaning somewhere in time.— Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way, 1970
He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
They are able to function as a coherent group.

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